Everything you need to understand Aerodrome — contracts, terminology, tokenomics and security.
Aerodrome is the leading ve(3,3) decentralized exchange on Base. Liquidity providers earn AERO emissions; veAERO lockers vote to direct those emissions and collect the resulting fees and incentives.
AERO is minted weekly and streamed to pools in proportion to veAERO votes. The schedule moved from a take-off phase (+3%/epoch) into decay (−1%/epoch), and eventually voter-governed 'Aero Fed' policy.
An LP either stakes into the gauge to earn AERO emissions, OR stays unstaked to earn the pool's trading fees directly — never both at once.
Every epoch flip — Thursday 00:00 UTC. Votes are due by Wednesday 23:00 UTC; carried-over votes persist automatically.